Supported by Häusler Contemporary, max goelitz presents with «bodies of resilience» its first solo exhibition by the artist Gary Kuehn.
«bodies of resilience» highlights the physical and emotional dimensions of Gary Kuehn’s works, exploring the tensions between constraint and release, gesture and geometry and softness and rigidity. The solo show brings together selected sculptures, paintings and drawings from 1969 – 1972 and beyond.
As a well-known representative of American Process Art, Gary Kuehn (*1939 Plainfield, New Jersey, US) contributed significantly to the radical change in the concept of art in the 1960s. His artworks demonstrate a deep understanding of material properties. Simple shapes such as circles, squares, and triangles form the basis of his artistic investigations in conjunction with a variety of handcrafted and industrial materials such as fiberglass, wood, plaster, and steel. The geometric bodies are often subjected to deforming forces or kinetic energy, spatially displaced, knotted, or bumped, always generating an emotional value to Kuehn's formally abstract works. (From the press release by max goelitz).
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